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Mr Parker said the firearms team gavepresentations to pupils at county schools to help cut weapon crime, adding: “The vast majority of crimes committed using weapons I would say are done by males in the 16 to 24 age group.

“That’s why we go into schools to try to educate them.”

Wood Farm resident Karis Daniels, whose brother Blayne Ridgway was stabbed to death in the city centre, said she was not surprised by the numbers.

The 26-year-old added: “This world is not getting any better, it’s getting worse.

“It’s not a safe place like once upon a time, but I don’t think Oxford should be singled out. Nowadays children are not getting raised properly.”

After her brother’s death in May 2010 she campaigned to tackle knife crime, but she said nothing had changed, adding: “Unless it has affected you personally people don’t realise how much of a problem it is.”

Weapons used/possessed/ discharged during an offence in Oxford between August 1, 2011, and July 31, 2012.

By neighbourhood

Cowley – 94

Headington – 85

Blackbird Leys – 78

Littlemore – 27

Barton – 12

Marston – Nine

Cuttleslowe – Nine

Wood Farm – Six

Summertown – Six

Osney Town – Three

Risinghurst – Three

Jericho – Three

Binsey – One

Iffley – One

The location of the remainder of the weapons crimes was not recorded by police

Comments (1)

And a handgun was involved in incidents in Cowley last November, and again in June in a location not recorded by police.

Serioulsy, a handgun is used in a public place but the police don't record where. I very much think it's more of a case of they don't want to tell the Oxford Mail.

And a handgun was involved in incidents in Cowley last November, and again in June in a location not recorded by police.
Serioulsy, a handgun is used in a public place but the police don't record where. I very much think it's more of a case of they don't want to tell the Oxford Mail.Sandy Wimpole-Smythe